Illustration 17:The Last Judgement, from a Book ofHours, c. 1495. Koninklijke Bibliotheek (The Hague),135 G 19, f. 81v.The longest composite descriptor wefind in Iconclass is the following stock definition:11U1

comprehensive representation of Last Judge-

ment: Christ (with sword and lily), often surroundedby elders and sometimes accompanied by Mary andJohn the Baptist, appears in the sky with trumpetingangels (and sometimes angels holding the instrumentsof the Passion); after the resurrection of the dead theblessed are led to heaven by angels, and the damned aredragged into hell by devils.